Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

- King, Florence

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Link, Henry C.

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.